Special Effects, Underlining

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Date: 1996/12/24

> I know I know, underlining is bad. And I agree. Yet, I'd like to know how I
> can underline some text in LaTeX. When using "\underline", I have the
> problem that the underlined text cannot be split, which makes it impossible
> to underline long texts (like more than a line).
>
> How can I get LaTeX to underline and span several lines ?

Use a package called ulem.sty